The Good, the Bad and the Plain Crazy The EU Commissariat has just made an announcement that is both good and bad. Let us start with the good: According to European press reports, Chief Commissar Barroso left the commission with an inheritance of 452 legislative initiatives, including the ‘harmonization of standards of maternity protection’, ‘uniform energy taxation and environmental protection legislation’ and ‘forcing all nations to implement waste recycling’ (if you want to know why waste recycling, which superficially sounds like a great idea, is yet another complete etatiste charade, read this article in which Per Bylund deconstructs the recycling myth using socialist paradise Sweden as an example).
Anyway, the new commissariat under JC Juncker has decided to simply strike 83 of Barroso’s initiatives legacy completely, put a large part of it on hold, and instead concentrate only on a handful – 23 to start with. Also, among the things to be tackled is an endeavor to actually cut red tape (we will believe it when we see it). According to the commissariats own words:
‘When laws are no longer fit for purpose, or impose too much burden, they will be reviewed and amended to make EU law lighter, simpler and less costly.’
So much for the ‘good’.
However, it is very unfortunate that many of the remaining initiatives they have decided to concentrate on (the bad) mainly consist of bureaucratic nonsense of the finest. Among the top initiatives we find for example: The ’315 billion investment offensive’, an ‘ambitious digital single market package’ (under the leadership of the economically and technologically illiterate digital commissar Mr. ttinger, whom we have profiled before), and ‘fair taxation’ (the term ‘fair’ in conjunction with the term taxation always means only one thing: higher taxes).
We want to once again focus on the bizarre ‘investment initiative’ on this occasion. This project is one we would term both ‘bad’ and ‘plain crazy’, although the political cronies who stand to be enriched by it would of course disagree.
The ‘ghost airport’ at Lodz
Photo credit: Reuters
This post was published at Acting-Man on December 17, 2014.
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